My 15 y.o. teen claims EVERYONE UBERs in her school

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Anonymous wrote:Call me a helicopter, but if my 15 year old is at a drinking party I would want them to call me to come and get them. Not the Uber guy.

+1, I would want them to call even more if they were drinking.

But that's precisely why they wouldn't call you. Most teens feel the choice is uber home or drive with drunk friend. Nobody wants to call their parents when they've been drinking no matter how understanding their parents say they will be.

What do you base this statement on?

Parents who are hands off or know their parents will not come get them.

Our school has a meeting with kids about drinking and drugs and they took a survey that they won't call their parents because their parents will lecture them and freak out. They would rather stay at a drinking party and risk getting caught than call parents.

They also said they would be more likely to call an Uber than call their parents.

That is a parenting issue, not an uber issue. Either way if they Ubered you would see the bill and start to question it? As parents, you know when your child has been drinking and how you deal with it is up to you but they need to know you will come get them and support them.

I agree it is a parenting issue. I trust my children to get out of a bad situation and to use their judgement. When a bad situation arises they knew what to do. They are older now ... if you don't have a HS graduate you are just entering the years of discourse.

Good luck!

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Anonymous wrote:Call me a helicopter, but if my 15 year old is at a drinking party I would want them to call me to come and get them. Not the Uber guy.

+1, I would want them to call even more if they were drinking.

But that's precisely why they wouldn't call you. Most teens feel the choice is uber home or drive with drunk friend. Nobody wants to call their parents when they've been drinking no matter how understanding their parents say they will be.

What do you base this statement on?

Parents who are hands off or know their parents will not come get them.

Our school has a meeting with kids about drinking and drugs and they took a survey that they won't call their parents because their parents will lecture them and freak out. They would rather stay at a drinking party and risk getting caught than call parents.

They also said they would be more likely to call an Uber than call their parents.

That is a parenting issue, not an uber issue. Either way if they Ubered you would see the bill and start to question it? As parents, you know when your child has been drinking and how you deal with it is up to you but they need to know you will come get them and support them.

I agree it is a parenting issue. I trust my children to get out of a bad situation and to use their judgement. When a bad situation arises they knew what to do. They are older now ... if you don't have a HS graduate you are just entering the years of discourse.

Good luck!

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Parenting issue - doesn't apply to everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:Call me a helicopter, but if my 15 year old is at a drinking party I would want them to call me to come and get them. Not the Uber guy.

+1, I would want them to call even more if they were drinking.

But that's precisely why they wouldn't call you. Most teens feel the choice is uber home or drive with drunk friend. Nobody wants to call their parents when they've been drinking no matter how understanding their parents say they will be.

What do you base this statement on?

Parents who are hands off or know their parents will not come get them.

Our school has a meeting with kids about drinking and drugs and they took a survey that they won't call their parents because their parents will lecture them and freak out. They would rather stay at a drinking party and risk getting caught than call parents.

They also said they would be more likely to call an Uber than call their parents.

That is a parenting issue, not an uber issue. Either way if they Ubered you would see the bill and start to question it? As parents, you know when your child has been drinking and how you deal with it is up to you but they need to know you will come get them and support them.

I agree it is a parenting issue. I trust my children to get out of a bad situation and to use their judgement. When a bad situation arises they knew what to do. They are older now ... if you don't have a HS graduate you are just entering the years of discourse.

Good luck!

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Parenting issue - doesn't apply to everyone.

You really think it's necessary for young teens to practice getting out of dangerous drinking/drugging parties by calling the Uber guy?

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Anonymous wrote:Call me a helicopter, but if my 15 year old is at a drinking party I would want them to call me to come and get them. Not the Uber guy.

+1, I would want them to call even more if they were drinking.

But that's precisely why they wouldn't call you. Most teens feel the choice is uber home or drive with drunk friend. Nobody wants to call their parents when they've been drinking no matter how understanding their parents say they will be.

What do you base this statement on?

Parents who are hands off or know their parents will not come get them.

Our school has a meeting with kids about drinking and drugs and they took a survey that they won't call their parents because their parents will lecture them and freak out. They would rather stay at a drinking party and risk getting caught than call parents.

They also said they would be more likely to call an Uber than call their parents.

That is a parenting issue, not an uber issue. Either way if they Ubered you would see the bill and start to question it? As parents, you know when your child has been drinking and how you deal with it is up to you but they need to know you will come get them and support them.

I agree it is a parenting issue. I trust my children to get out of a bad situation and to use their judgement. When a bad situation arises they knew what to do. They are older now ... if you don't have a HS graduate you are just entering the years of discourse.

Good luck!

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Parenting issue - doesn't apply to everyone.

You really think it's necessary for young teens to practice getting out of dangerous drinking/drugging parties by calling the Uber guy?

I think your young teens will be faced with many situatoin... drinking party, their date drank before a dance, they were going to get food after "activity" but it is pouring rain, they want to go to the movies with friends and parents are 30 minutes away but it's only a 15 minute uber ride (with 4 friend, $3/chidl)...

I do think it is good for kids to learn how to navigate getting around... bus, metro, driving, walking and uber.

It's just another form of transportation. Do you guys forbid your kids from taking metro and bus also?

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I think your young teens will be faced with many situatoin... drinking party, their date drank before a dance, they were going to get food after "activity" but it is pouring rain, they want to go to the movies with friends and parents are 30 minutes away but it's only a 15 minute uber ride (with 4 friend, $3/chidl)...

I do think it is good for kids to learn how to navigate getting around... bus, metro, driving, walking and uber.

It's just another form of transportation. Do you guys forbid your kids from taking metro and bus also?

One might say the same of hitchhiking. Not that hitchhiking is necessarily comparable to Uber, but I think the posters have made it quite clear that it's this specific form of transportation they have concerns about, not the concept of transportation in general.

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Anonymous wrote:Call me a helicopter, but if my 15 year old is at a drinking party I would want them to call me to come and get them. Not the Uber guy.

+1, I would want them to call even more if they were drinking.

But that's precisely why they wouldn't call you. Most teens feel the choice is uber home or drive with drunk friend. Nobody wants to call their parents when they've been drinking no matter how understanding their parents say they will be.

What do you base this statement on?

Parents who are hands off or know their parents will not come get them.

Our school has a meeting with kids about drinking and drugs and they took a survey that they won't call their parents because their parents will lecture them and freak out. They would rather stay at a drinking party and risk getting caught than call parents.

They also said they would be more likely to call an Uber than call their parents.

That is a parenting issue, not an uber issue. Either way if they Ubered you would see the bill and start to question it? As parents, you know when your child has been drinking and how you deal with it is up to you but they need to know you will come get them and support them.

I agree it is a parenting issue. I trust my children to get out of a bad situation and to use their judgement. When a bad situation arises they knew what to do. They are older now ... if you don't have a HS graduate you are just entering the years of discourse.

Good luck!

+1

Parenting issue - doesn't apply to everyone.

You really think it's necessary for young teens to practice getting out of dangerous drinking/drugging parties by calling the Uber guy?

I think your young teens will be faced with many situatoin... drinking party, their date drank before a dance, they were going to get food after "activity" but it is pouring rain, they want to go to the movies with friends and parents are 30 minutes away but it's only a 15 minute uber ride (with 4 friend, $3/chidl)...

I do think it is good for kids to learn how to navigate getting around... bus, metro, driving, walking and uber.

It's just another form of transportation. Do you guys forbid your kids from taking metro and bus also?

Well, let's agree that a 15 year old at a drinking party nearly an hour away from home is a different scenario than a kid wanting to go to Burger King with her friends during band practice break.

If my 15 year old was at a dance I would expect to pick my 15 year old up....15 year old kids don't drive. And if they were at a dance with a drunk older kid I would want them to call me, too.

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Anonymous wrote:Call me a helicopter, but if my 15 year old is at a drinking party I would want them to call me to come and get them. Not the Uber guy.

+1, I would want them to call even more if they were drinking.

But that's precisely why they wouldn't call you. Most teens feel the choice is uber home or drive with drunk friend. Nobody wants to call their parents when they've been drinking no matter how understanding their parents say they will be.

What do you base this statement on?

Parents who are hands off or know their parents will not come get them.

Our school has a meeting with kids about drinking and drugs and they took a survey that they won't call their parents because their parents will lecture them and freak out. They would rather stay at a drinking party and risk getting caught than call parents.

They also said they would be more likely to call an Uber than call their parents.

That is a parenting issue, not an uber issue. Either way if they Ubered you would see the bill and start to question it? As parents, you know when your child has been drinking and how you deal with it is up to you but they need to know you will come get them and support them.

I agree it is a parenting issue. I trust my children to get out of a bad situation and to use their judgement. When a bad situation arises they knew what to do. They are older now ... if you don't have a HS graduate you are just entering the years of discourse.

Good luck!

I have older and younger ones. They know to call us and we will come. If they used good judgment, they will not get in trouble. I teach them to try not to get in those situations in the first place.

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I think your young teens will be faced with many situatoin... drinking party, their date drank before a dance, they were going to get food after "activity" but it is pouring rain, they want to go to the movies with friends and parents are 30 minutes away but it's only a 15 minute uber ride (with 4 friend, $3/chidl)...

I do think it is good for kids to learn how to navigate getting around... bus, metro, driving, walking and uber.

It's just another form of transportation. Do you guys forbid your kids from taking metro and bus also?

One might say the same of hitchhiking. Not that hitchhiking is necessarily comparable to Uber, but I think the posters have made it quite clear that it's this specific form of transportation they have concerns about, not the concept of transportation in general.

Sure, metro is very dangerous. There are parents that do not let their kids take take metro. I don't judge them for not allowing metro. If you don't like uber that is a parenting decision, it does not make a better parent or a worse parent. Just know that friends will be taking metro and uber and that your kid will either not be included or you will have to drive them.

I don't allow private planes where the father is the pilot. You might. So my child did not go to the cape that weekend, life did not end.

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Anonymous wrote:Call me a helicopter, but if my 15 year old is at a drinking party I would want them to call me to come and get them. Not the Uber guy.

+1, I would want them to call even more if they were drinking.

But that's precisely why they wouldn't call you. Most teens feel the choice is uber home or drive with drunk friend. Nobody wants to call their parents when they've been drinking no matter how understanding their parents say they will be.

What do you base this statement on?

Parents who are hands off or know their parents will not come get them.

Our school has a meeting with kids about drinking and drugs and they took a survey that they won't call their parents because their parents will lecture them and freak out. They would rather stay at a drinking party and risk getting caught than call parents.

They also said they would be more likely to call an Uber than call their parents.

That is a parenting issue, not an uber issue. Either way if they Ubered you would see the bill and start to question it? As parents, you know when your child has been drinking and how you deal with it is up to you but they need to know you will come get them and support them.

I agree it is a parenting issue. I trust my children to get out of a bad situation and to use their judgement. When a bad situation arises they knew what to do. They are older now ... if you don't have a HS graduate you are just entering the years of discourse.

Good luck!

I have older and younger ones. They know to call us and we will come. If they used good judgment, they will not get in trouble. I teach them to try not to get in those situations in the first place.

Your older kids have never been to a party and realized their was alcohol?

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Ridiculous, she is 15 years old. Im sure she used that same tactic when she got her iphone

All the kids have iphones , MOM!

As a grown woman, I refuse to ride in a car with a random driver let alone my kid...

It does not matter if she is with a group of friends... this driver can use child locks in for the back doors , pull out his gun and throw those phones out the window.

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Anonymous wrote:Ridiculous, she is 15 years old. Im sure she used that same tactic when she got her iphone

All the kids have iphones , MOM!

As a grown woman, I refuse to ride in a car with a random driver let alone my kid...

It does not matter if she is with a group of friends... this driver can use child locks in for the back doors , pull out his gun and throw those phones out the window.

We have officially jumped the shark with this thread!

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Anonymous wrote:Call me a helicopter, but if my 15 year old is at a drinking party I would want them to call me to come and get them. Not the Uber guy.

+1, I would want them to call even more if they were drinking.

But that's precisely why they wouldn't call you. Most teens feel the choice is uber home or drive with drunk friend. Nobody wants to call their parents when they've been drinking no matter how understanding their parents say they will be.

What do you base this statement on?

Parents who are hands off or know their parents will not come get them.

Our school has a meeting with kids about drinking and drugs and they took a survey that they won't call their parents because their parents will lecture them and freak out. They would rather stay at a drinking party and risk getting caught than call parents.

They also said they would be more likely to call an Uber than call their parents.

That is a parenting issue, not an uber issue. Either way if they Ubered you would see the bill and start to question it? As parents, you know when your child has been drinking and how you deal with it is up to you but they need to know you will come get them and support them.

I agree it is a parenting issue. I trust my children to get out of a bad situation and to use their judgement. When a bad situation arises they knew what to do. They are older now ... if you don't have a HS graduate you are just entering the years of discourse.

Good luck!

I have older and younger ones. They know to call us and we will come. If they used good judgment, they will not get in trouble. I teach them to try not to get in those situations in the first place.

Your older kids have never been to a party and realized their was alcohol?

Nope.

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Anonymous wrote:Ridiculous, she is 15 years old. Im sure she used that same tactic when she got her iphone

All the kids have iphones , MOM!

As a grown woman, I refuse to ride in a car with a random driver let alone my kid...

It does not matter if she is with a group of friends... this driver can use child locks in for the back doors , pull out his gun and throw those phones out the window.

We have officially jumped the shark with this thread!

Seriously.

[Anonymous]

I skipped all the pages so forgive me but WHO IS PAYING FOR THIS ? I know it ain't free.

Kids today think they are stars and can live like one. On Mom and Dad's dime.

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Anonymous wrote:I skipped all the pages so forgive me but WHO IS PAYING FOR THIS ? I know it ain't free.

Kids today think they are stars and can live like one. On Mom and Dad's dime.

Uber is almost ridiculously cheap during non-surge times.